![]() ![]() ![]() However, Theseus defends Oedipus and rescues both Antigone and her sister who was also taken prisoner.Īt the end of the play, both Antigone and her sister mourn the death of their father. She stays with her father for the majority of the play, until she is taken away by Creon in an attempt to blackmail Oedipus into returning to Thebes. Antigone resembles her father in her stubbornness and doomed existence. ![]() Oedipus at Colonus Īntigone serves as her father's guide in Oedipus at Colonus, as she leads him into the city where the play takes place. Creon prevents him from taking the girls out of the city with him. He then begs Creon to watch over them, but in his grief reaches to take them with him as he is led away. The story of Antigone was addressed by the fifth-century BC Greek playwright Sophocles in his Theban plays:Īntigone and her sister Ismene are seen at the end of Oedipus Rex as Oedipus laments the "shame" and "sorrow" he is leaving his daughters to. Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865) ![]()
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